China releases Chang'e-4 payloads' scientific datasets

Chang'e-4 lander captures captivating image of Yutu-2 rover exploring the moon's surface

China releases Chang'e-4 payloads' scientific datasets
by Staff Writers
Beijing (XNA) Feb 20, 2023

China has released a new batch of datasets from the payloads installed on the Chang'e-4 probe on the official website of the Lunar and Planetary Data Release System.

The datasets include 3,991.1 MB of 803 data files obtained by the four scientific payloads on the Chang'e-4 lander and rover between December 26, 2021 and January 10, 2022.

The Chang'e-4 probe, launched on Dec 8, 2018, made the first-ever soft landing in the Von Karman Crater in the South Pole-Aitken Basin on the far side of the moon on Jan 3, 2019. So far, its rover Yutu-2 has traveled about 1,500 meters on the far side of the moon.

Source: Xinhua News Agency

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